Edgar Cayce Readings, 2891-1

Time and Place: 12:30 to 1:15 P. M. Eastern War Time. Pvt. in U.S. Army, ..., Florida.

TEXT

GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
EC: (In going back over years from the present - " - '42 - changes - '41 - unfoldments - '40 - decisions - " etc., on back to birth date.)
What a peculiar sign!
Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2891].
In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these we choose from same with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for this entity; though we find that there will be many changes in the activities and the environs of this entity - many strange places, unusual scenes for the entity.
Yet with these suggestions as a basis for those choices made, we may find the entity better enabled to fulfil those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
No one enters an experience by chance, but that all may come to know their relationships to the Creative Forces.
Here we find latent, and as may be manifested through the experience and application of the innate influence within, the greater enabling of the awakening of the spiritual life that is within. Thus the greater injunction to this entity would be: Study to know thyself, to know thy faith, the author of thy faith; not only as related to the spiritual but the mental and material choices made also.
Those influences have come into the experience in which there might necessarily be drawn the conclusion by the entity that choices are made for self, yet in the applications that are manifested and latent in the experience, the entity may use the present relationship as a stepping-stone to fulfil those purposes deep within self. Rather than letting them become stumblingstones, make of the circumstance stepping-stones.
In the latent forces that are a part of the whole experience, we find Mercury - or mind; Venus with the affliction of Saturn; Jupiter and Uranus as portions of the entity's experience.
One, then, very high-minded.
One that finds not a great deal of physical emotion, though a great deal of mental and spiritual emotion, latent and deep within self.
One indicating rather a universal consciousness.
One who may make and must use diplomatic influences to attain the material environs.
One who may make a very good speaker, orator, or the like. Hence a lecturer, a lawyer; or things or circumstances in which there are the abilities to put things and places and conditions in such relationships one to another as to become as lessons or instructions, or as defense, or as the prosecuting of high ideals.
One that is very much undone to have anyone doubt the entity's words.
One that is inclined, however, - as indicated from Uranus and Saturn, - to be moody at times, or to give way to the "don't care" moods. Hence those injunctions as given: Study to show thyself and thy ideals approved, if the abilities and the activities would be in line with accomplishing or fulfilling those purposes for which the entity entered this experience.
As to the appearances, - while not all are given, these - as they find expression in the mental and material forces of the entity - influence the entity in the present, and in those environs of those activities just before the entity:
Before that the entity was active in that known as the American Revolution.
Hence we find that the entity has very definite ideas, very definite ways of expressing itself. Thus a good conversationalist, a good speaker, a good composer.
The entity then was active in the intelligence service in the army of the Revolution, carrying messages back and forth in the campaigns through Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina.
Then in the name Wade Dixon, the entity made contacts between the northern and the southern armies, in those periods when there were those giving training at Yorktown.
And in the entity's present activity there may be much to do with places or periods where again capitulation may eventually come about. This, to be sure, will depend upon choices made by the entity as to activities.
Thus in the present service we find that those activities having to do with communications, with the intelligence activities, should be those choices and applications of the entity; for the preparation of which service the study in these directions should be made at once. Then let the activities take their course, through the very abilities of the entity to qualify self for such activities.
Before that the entity was in the Holy Land, or the Promised Land, though the entity was then among the soldiery of the Romans. But the entity came under the influence of the teachings of those peoples during the period when there was the spreading of the teachings of the Master.
Then the entity, through its associations with the ruler or director was active in that capacity as the orderly - as might be called - under Cornelius; who kept the records of the various activities of the peoples in the forts in Antioch, as well as carrying messages to those in authority in Rome.
Thus we may find in the present experience the entity will become a betraveled young man, as well as keeping in those activities that would have to do with many varied lands, and especially those whose sign is the star and the crescent.
In that sojourn the entity gained; and deep latent spiritual influences arise from that activity, as well as the abilities as a speaker, as a writer, as a record keeper. Thus we find these latent and manifested, and may be developed - if there is the choice of the entity - in the present activities and relationships, THROUGHOUT the sojourn of the entity in this particular experience.
The name then was Philcholos.
Before that the entity was in the Arabian and Persian land, when there were those turmoils with the nomad peoples and the Persian King.
The entity then was a keeper of the records, or as a counselor in the king's activities.
And these contribute to the entity's latent abilities as a speaker, as a student of law or custom, or the diplomatic activities between groups of varied or different purposes and beliefs materially, as well as spiritually. These are latent abilities that may become active, if there is the application of self in those directions. But study thy own self, especially as to the ideals, - physical, mental and spiritual. And be true to those faiths in that ideal chosen. Know in Whom ye believe as well as in what ye believe.
The name then was Parh-eses.
Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when groups were chosen for definite services, as well as in the periods following those turmoils and the entrance of the Atlantean into the activities of the Egyptian political as well as economic and social life, during the reconstruction.
The entity then was raised to a place of authority in choice of teachings, in the individual groups making the selections for vocational guidance for the various groups.
Thus the latent abilities of the entity in judgements of peoples, as in various faiths religious, or the various convictions as to political activities in various forms of study or preparation.
Thus something of the diplomatic application is to be attained, but the abilities of the entity in being or playing the diplomat, in bringing to pass those choices made in its mental and spiritual convictions.
The name then was Ast-Elaart.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, - that to which it may attain, and how:
First, as indicated, study to show thyself and thy ideals, - physical, material, mental and spiritual, and the author of same. Then study to show self approved unto that ideal, - a workman not ashamed but rightly emphasizing those various activities, and keeping self from condemnation of others or of self.
In the present activity of communications, or the intelligence service, may the entity excel, - if there is the choice in that direction and the application, - to be at that period when final decisions are made in some other lands.
As a lecturer, as a writer, as a lawyer, as a diplomat, - in any of these services may the entity find the greater outlet for fulfilling those desires and hopes of this experience.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Regarding the service and communications, should the application for training be through the Signal Corp or in some other branch?
(A) Either the Signal Corp or in special communications as to radio or the intelligence part of the army, of which this - of course - as a part.
(Q) What have been the associations in past incarnations with the present mother?
(A) In Egypt and in the Holy Land. A filial association in the Holy Land, and in Egypt as a helpful force. Thus aiding the entity in choosing its offices and making those connections through which the diplomatic portion of the experience may be had.
(Q) With the present father?
(A) In the Persian experience, and these were crosses at times, - for there was a great deal of competitive activity with the father in that sojourn.
We are through for the present.
Two copies to Mother
Copies to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1/20/43 Mother submitted questions via HLC in N.Y.C.: "Is there any tie-up between eye condition and mental-spiritual development? Special advice for Army and future work. Is the girl with whom he is now in love the best marriage partner for him - past urges, etc?"